The Anatomy of References

The preferred PID scheme In consideration of the foregoing, the strongest option across the studied major dimensions of the available Handle System PID schemes and operational modes is for DiSSCo to use DOIs to identify Digital Specimens. The case for choosing DOI comes out slightly more strongly than choosing ePIC for reasons related to the substantial achievements, operational experience and reputation of DOI/ IDF to date. Operating under another Handle-system prefix than those used by IDF and ePIC is the substantially weakest option because of the difficulties associated with introducing an identifier that is not perceived to be a DOI. The term ‘DOI’ is trademarked by the IDF and thus not available for describing other identifiers. The practical and sensible avenue to explore further are the options to establish and become an RA member of the DOI Foundation (option A5) and to enter a strategic alliance at the level of the DOI Foundation (option A1). These options are likely most effective when actioned in combination.

Name of infrastructure Key purpose List of integrated PIDsFairdata.fi Research data publication,metadata hub andpreservation serviceDOI, URN, ORCID (updaResearch.fi National research data hub. Current draft:ADSbibcode - AstrophysicsData System -Bibliographic ReferenceCode (en)ARK - Archival ResourceKey (en)arXiv - arXiv identifierscheme (en)BusinessID - Y-tunnus (fi)(en)Crossref_funders -Crossref Funder Registry(en)DOI - Digital ObjectIdentifier (en)Case Study: FINLAND Page 3 of 6

Supported Schemes

Editable metadata – identifiers’ metadata must be able to be edited in order to allow their owners to update details of the thing they are referring to, such as its location, as they will inevitably change.

— dynamic updating of metadata, applications and services.

— interoperability with other data from other sources,